Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 710
"Too deceiving!!"

Lu Tazhi's face was flushed, and he gritted his teeth angrily.

Just now, he happily went to salute Zhou Yafu with a smile, but Zhou Yafu just looked at him coldly, even bumped him away, and walked into the palace first.

Luta was stunned.

Let you manage the southern army, and you will swell like this? ?

If I let you be a captain, wouldn't you want to step over my head? ?
This court meeting, because it involved the issue of the North and South Army, many generals came to participate, and even some generals who were stationed outside rushed back in time, including Qin Tong who was in charge of garrisoning fields at the frontier The general, and several strong generals stationed in Longxi, Beidi, and Hanoi.Lu Tazhi was now promoted to Jiuqing and became the head of all the doctors in the palace. After Wang Tianqi resigned, his lieutenant position was taken by Su Yi, the former Prime Minister of Chu.

Su Yi was once the Prime Minister of the late King Chu and Yuan Dynasty. He was gentle and courteous, knew military affairs, was bold and careful, was very humble in everything, kept a low profile, and was deeply loved by the old King of Chu. Before Wang Tianqi resigned, he Speaking of this person to Liu Chang, I originally wanted to recommend him, but the temple does not allow recommendation, so I can only propose a few names and let the emperor figure it out. Among the people Wang Tianqi mentioned, Liu Chang After much deliberation, he finally decided to let this low-key Su Yi take over his position.

Don't look at Wang Tianqi who was more inclined to Tingwei before, mainly responsible for investigating cases and arresting people. In fact, he has great power in his hands. He is the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army in name. Unless Liu Chang appoints a general to command the Northern and Southern Army, otherwise the Northern Army will obey. His order is high and powerful. People in this position should not be too strong. It is best to be tolerant. Most generals are arrogant. If there is a strong lieutenant, the two sides may fight for power. There was a lot of restlessness.

And this is the first time that Su Yi participated in the court meeting as Jiuqing. Standing at the gate of the palace, the new Jiuqing is silently looking at the officials.

He is low-key, has few friends, is not a founding hero, and has almost no friendship with ministers in the temple.

But he himself is still very conspicuous. He is tall, very tall, about the same size as Xiahouzao, but not as tall as Xiahouzao, thinner, with a gentle smile on his face, and looks harmless to humans and animals.

Suddenly someone came to his side.

"You are Lieutenant Su?"

The man who came looked solemn and very polite.

Su Yi hastily bowed to see him, "Exactly, I came here yesterday and received His Majesty's canonization in the palace, but I have never paid my respects to the princes, I wonder if you are?"

"Nei Slumbu."

Su Yi was a little surprised, "Ah, it turned out to be Duke Luan who sacrificed his life to avenge the old master's justice! He has heard of his name for a long time! I never thought that I would meet you today."

He hurriedly possessed himself to pay respects, Luan Bu was taken aback, "That happened many years ago."

"Duke Luan's reputation is well known in Chu State. I will definitely visit him someday."

Luan Bu nodded, and then said: "Your duties are also very important, but I also have a few words to remind you that the present His Majesty is irritable and rude, and often humiliates the officials."

Su Yi's face turned pale with fright, and he looked around nervously.

Do you want to say such exciting words as soon as you come? ?Could it be that the officials in Chang'an had long been dissatisfied with the emperor and conspired to rebel? ?
Luan Bu said unhurriedly: "However, you don't have to worry about it. Your Majesty has a pure heart and a good nature. It's not rude, it's just unruly etiquette. As long as you can do what your Majesty ordered well, you can get Your majesty will protect you for your political achievements, and the rewards and punishments are clear. Even if you offend your majesty, it doesn't matter. Your majesty is straightforward. If you are angry, you will be insulted. If you are happy, you will be rewarded. People outside say that your majesty is murderous and cruel. Actually, His Majesty seldom kills, even if he commits a serious crime, His Majesty will think about how to discipline and correct it, instead of killing him directly."

"Don't listen to other people's nonsense. Although His Majesty is not a virtuous monarch, if you really want to realize your ambitions, His Majesty is definitely the best backer. Just do things seriously. Don't be afraid of Your Majesty, mediocre live."

Su Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you Luan Gong, I will never forget your teaching."

"Ah."

Luan Bu nodded and stopped talking.

"What are you two talking about?"

Another person came forward, it was Jia Yi from the youth faction. Jia Yi greeted Su Yi with a smile, and said, "This is Mr. Su, right? I have read your letter before. It is brilliant in writing and discusses the innovation of currency. You are quite insightful, and I have long wanted to meet you."

Su Yi hurriedly replied, "Could it be Jia Gong who is weak and guarded? How dare my articles compare with yours? I often read your articles, and I have been friends with them for a long time."

Jia Yi chatted with him a few more words before looking at Luan Bu, "You two actually know each other?"

"I didn't know each other before, but Mr. Luan came to wake me up."

"Oh? Wake up what?"

Luan Bu replied calmly: "It's just to remind him to beware of tyrants."

Jia Yi shook his head and smiled wryly, and then looked at the ministers behind him, "Your Majesty never cherishes his reputation, unlike the Yushi, who just came to the temple, and all the officials praised him, so Duke Luan turned a blind eye to him." , and never went to see him in his mansion. The ministers in the court said that Duke Luan was jealous of other people's fame. However, this censor is also admirable. dear brother."

Luan Bu frowned immediately, "Jia Sheng, others can say that, but you are not qualified. This censor is quite a man of integrity, but he is not as open-minded as my majesty. If you are here Under his command, I am afraid that he is still an official in the local area, and it is absolutely impossible to occupy a high position in the temple."

"Look at what you said, I have never visited him in his mansion, we are all ministers of His Majesty."

However, Su Yi smelled an unusual disturbance, His Majesty's confidant and old minister seemed to be dissatisfied with Yushi?

If we wait for the left prime minister to return to the temple, won't there be even bigger disturbances?
Su Yi looked into the distance again. Sure enough, there were many ministers gathered around the censor. Almost all of those highly respected and famous ministers stood by his side, chatting with him enthusiastically, but the censor Shi Zhuang still pulled Fengchang Lu Jia, and was talking to him, but Lu Jia's complexion didn't look good, he didn't give this world-famous virtuous king any good complexion, instead he looked anxious, obviously not The meaning of chatting.

It is not easy for Liu Heng at the moment.

Regarding restructuring, the first person to be persuaded is Feng Chang.

Although he said he was Sangong, Fengchang was just Jiuqing.

But this Jiuqing is the head of the Jiuqing, the power in his hands is too great, and he is highly respected, a world-renowned scholar, a strategist who has made great contributions, a hero who founded the country, a disciple of Confucian Xunsheng, and many others. Combined with his identities, even Sangong would not dare to do anything to him.

And the most important thing is that this Lu Fengchang obviously doesn't like the restructuring very much.

Liu Heng can also understand his thoughts. After all, under the current official system, he holds great power, and almost all important departments are in his hands. If the system is restructured, these will have to be subdivided.

But the queen mother gave advice, asking him to find a way to get the support of this Duke Lu, and telling him not to think about convincing through eloquence or other things, Liu Heng was in trouble.

At this time, the court meeting officially began.

Everyone walked into the palace, and even the Taiwei appeared in the court meeting, but everyone was no longer surprised, the Taiwei appeared frequently, and everyone was a little used to it.

Liu Changren sat tall and burly, and the officials sat in front of him, and everyone began to discuss what happened in the near future.

First of all, farmers.

Luan Bu got up and talked about the results of the experimental field. Because of the temple's attention to agriculture, the farm has achieved unprecedented development in the past ten years, and its disciples are all over the world. Although they are still vulnerable groups in the temple, it is fair The only one on the list is Dong Anguo, who served as Zuo Cheng in the internal history, but at the local level, they have rapidly expanded, and their grassroots power and influence have skyrocketed, becoming a force that cannot be ignored.

And the farm's experimental field has also achieved a lot of results, almost one or two results are achieved every year.

But unlike the Mohists, their achievements are slow to take effect, and most of their disciples still maintain the past peasant thinking, they just don’t accept Wang Ling, so if they don’t want a title, they don’t want to develop towards the upper class, and they would rather spend their lives dealing with farmers on the land .

Some people admire their integrity and think that they are truly noble talents, while others despise their backwardness and think that their behavior is seeking their own death and digging a hole for themselves.

After Dahan opened up trade with Shendu and other places, a large number of new crops were introduced into Dahan, and Dahan’s farmhouse was broken. They cultivated these new crops in various places and named them. Some places can be successfully cultivated. Some places do not work. These crops include edible crops and cash crops, especially cotton. Dahan’s demand for cotton is quite high. After years of experiments, the farmers finally decided that growing cotton in Beiting Country is the most effective. Well, the geographical environment of Beiting Kingdom is simply too suitable for the growth of cotton, even better than that of Shendu, but Xiting Kingdom is not as good.

Therefore, Liu Ang's Beiting Kingdom has become the most important cotton supplier for the entire Han Dynasty.

In terms of food crops, eggplant, courgette, walnut, pepper, coriander, soybean, garlic, alfalfa, grape, pomegranate, watermelon, and jasmine, a large number of fruits and vegetables appeared in Dahan. Farmers tried to cultivate them in Dahan. A lot of results have been obtained. In many places in Dahan, people began to grow various vegetables and fruits in their own courtyards, and even specialized vegetable farmers and fruit farmers appeared to make a fortune by cultivating such crops.

And all of this can't get around Luan Bu, an internal historian, and his title has been rising steadily with the successful cultivation of these vegetables and fruits.

People gave him the nickname "Fruit and Vegetable Marquis".

The Han people call fruits and vegetables "fruits and vegetables". They call Luan Bu this way, but they also have a sense of contempt and jealousy. That is to say, Luan Bu's title is not promoted through political achievements and military achievements, but through vegetables. Relegation, just like Lu Lu's Fu Jiahou, is a bit of malicious ridicule.

Of course, Luan Bu didn't care about this. Luan Bu told the ministers about the achievements of many new crops in a serious manner, and Liu Chang listened very seriously.

Seeing Liu Chang's earnest listening appearance, Xin Jiuqing Su Yi couldn't help but nod.

Who says the current emperor is stupid?People attach so much importance to Nongsang, and they listen more seriously than military affairs. How can this be a fatuous emperor?

But looking at it, Su Yi felt that something was wrong.

Even if you listen carefully, why are you still drooling?
Liu Chang immediately spoke highly of Luan Bu's outstanding achievements, and patted his chest and said, "Very good, I will go to the test field in person to see your results when I go to court later!"

Luan Bu's face darkened, and he said, "Your Majesty, it's best not to come here in the near future. It's still in the cultivation stage, so we can't see the light."

Liu Chang shook his head, "Agriculture is the foundation of the world, how can you underestimate it? Ai Qing, don't try to persuade me again, I'm definitely going to take a look."

Su Yi was a little dazed, and saw Duke Luan suddenly raised his head, sighed, and muttered something, but he didn't hear clearly.

Of course, Liu Chang didn’t go to the experimental field to eat fruits. Ahem, Liu Chang just thinks that the introduction of these crops is very helpful to the big man. You can’t underestimate these things just because they are not staple foods. As long as they are edible, they will help the big man. is huge, enriches its diet, and sometimes plays a pivotal role.

After farming, it was military matters.

Zhou Yafu wrote the letter directly, with extremely harsh words.

He wrote in a letter stating that the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army today has dropped sharply, and it no longer looks like the tiger and wolf division of the past. Qualified generals, from military marquis to school lieutenant, are called one by one.

The faces of the officials changed at that time, because many of the people Zhou Yafu mentioned were the children or distant relatives of these officials.

They couldn't help looking at Liu Heng.

At the beginning, Liu Heng proposed to let the children of the rich and powerful to make more military contributions and actively join the army. Then everyone arranged for their juniors to join the Southern Army. What is the situation now?

Liu Heng pursed his lips, faced the gaze of the officials, walked forward helplessly, and said to Zhou Yafu: "Many loyal sons have the idea of ​​serving His Majesty, actively joining the army and making contributions. After learning the art of war, this situation happened just now, so I can’t blame you too much.”

Zhou Yafu's face changed drastically, and his expression was cold, "If you want to serve the king, you can go to the Hexi Kingdom to fight the foreign Qiang, or go to the Xia Kingdom to fight those Hu people who don't submit. The Southern Army has the duty to protect the palace, how can it be used for nothing?! Censor Don’t think that this is the State of Wu, you can turn right from wrong. This is Chang’an, as a censor, you actually encouraged such a person to guard the palace, what is your intention?!”

He said irritablely, and took a few steps towards Liu Heng, as if he was about to strike at the next moment.

Lu Tazhi was taken aback, and hurriedly stood in front of Zhou Yafu, and said to Liu Heng: "General Cheqi is straightforward, he has no other intentions, please forgive me."

"All right!!"

Liu Chang let out a roar, and everyone immediately fell silent.

Liu Chang looked at the people in front of him coldly, and said, "Separate these people, half of them will be sent to Hexi to fight against the foreign Qiang, and the other half will be sent to Xia to fight against the foreign barbarians!"

Everyone didn't dare to say anything, so they had to agree.

Zhou Yafu then talked about a series of rectification methods aimed at the southern army, and finally proposed the method of setting up a lieutenant in charge of the northern army. After the Taiwei got up and agreed, the officials did not dare to object. Military power is a sensitive matter, and no minister is willing to write a letter to refute the emperor on the issue of military power. Things are progressing smoothly. Su Yi wants to divide his power with the emperor. His behavior is also turning a blind eye, as if he doesn't know anything.

The court meeting ended soon, and when Liu Chang was about to inspect the test field, two ministers stood in front of him at the same time.

One is Liu Heng and the other is Zhou Yafu.

Liu Chang had no choice but to lead them back to Houde Hall.

The two sat in the hall, Zhou Yafu still didn't have a good look at Liu Heng, he said: "Your Majesty, these people dare not appear in the army, they don't have the talents of their fathers and ancestors, and the local generals will be restricted because of their identities. It's not a good thing."

Liu Chang looked at Liu Heng, and Liu Heng said seriously: "Today's big men don't have any wars. I did this not because of wars, but because of political affairs."

"General Zhou is good at war, but he doesn't know politics."

He looked at Liu Chang and asked: "Your Majesty, do you still remember telling me that the Marquis of Chehou can be set as the third class according to the food town, and if the heirs have no military merits, they will be reduced by one class, descending in order, so as to reduce the flood of meritorious deeds?" , the situation where the big clan is rampant?"

Liu Chang scratched his head, "I probably told you so."

When Liu Heng first came to the temple, Liu Chang told him a lot of policies. Of course, most of them were plagiarized future policies. Liu Heng.

Liu Heng then said: "The reason why I encourage them to make military merits is to prepare for this matter. As long as the first batch of military meritorious groups can be assembled, the elite group can be divided and the system of non-military merit decreasing. For a powerful king like you, the heroes are unwilling and unable to resist. However, the system you mentioned is very suitable for today’s big men. There are too many meritorious deeds. Sooner or later, it will become a colossus that rests with the country. If it is not curbed, these powerful families will unite and become emperors in the future, and there is probably nothing they can do about it... If we don’t implement it now, when will we have to wait?”

"General Zhou Yafu only noticed the battle. Of course, it was also my fault. I didn't tell General Zhou Yafu about it in time."

Zhou Yafu's face remained calm, "It's useless even if you say it in advance."

Zhou Yafu added:
"It's only useful if His Majesty says it."

ps: It’s the end of the month so soon, fathers, please ask for a monthly ticket. By the way, there is one more thing. This book will soon be out of the circle at level five, and it is short of a dozen leaders. Where~~~ Reward the Ten League~~~
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